Linda M. Lawson is the Managing Partner in the Los Angeles office of Meserve, Mumper & Hughes LLP, and has been with the firm since 1977. Ms. Lawson specializes in the representation of insurance companies in matters relating to life, health and disability coverage and ERISA. She also specializes in the representation of management in employment related litigation and trials involving issues of wrongful termination, sexual harassment and employment discrimination.

Ms. Lawson is a member of the California State Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. She is a past Vice-Chair of the Health and Life Insurance Law Committees of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association and a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the ABA. Ms. Lawson is also active in the Defense Research Institute, where she served as the chair of the DRI Law Institute. She is a member of DRI's Employment Law Committee, and is a past Chair and current member of the Life, Health and Disability Committee. Ms. Lawson frequently speaks to insurance industry and business groups on insurance bad faith, ERISA and employment law issues.

Ms. Lawson was named a “Southern California Super Lawyer” by Los Angeles Magazine in 2006-2016. She has been named one of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal’s “Top Women Litigators.”

Ms. Lawson is a 1977 graduate of the University of Southern California School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1974.

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California, 1977

U.S. District Court, Central District of California

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

U.S. District Court, Southern District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

United States Supreme Court

Professional Affiliations

Member, DRI Law Institute

Member, DRI Life, Health and Disability Committee

Member, DRI Diversity Committee

Member, DRI Employment Law Committee

Member, California Minority Counsel Program ("CMCP")

Past Vice-Chair of Health and Life Insurance Law Committees of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association

Member, Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association